We are proud to welcome you to the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting 2021, hosted online by the University of Glasgow.
The second Virtual Anatomical Society meeting will cover cutting edge anatomy across multiple themes including: Neuroanatomy, Developmental Anatomy, Anatomy & Museum, and Anatomy & Disease.
The aim of the Anatomical Society's Scientific Meetings is to promote high quality science and research in the anatomical sciences.
One of the greatest strengths of the Society is its diversity and nowhere is this exemplified better than by the range of topics at our meetings. We have invited talks from both national and international speakers. We also welcome abstracts for oral presentations, flash talks and posters on any topic in anatomical science and anatomy education.
The abstract submission deadline has now closed. Please see our conference FAQs for more information. Registration for the second Virtual Anatomical Society Meeting will be free of charge to delegates. Registration Closing 5pm, Monday 5th July 2021.
Join this virtual meeting to learn more about cutting edge developments across the anatomical sciences and network with a diverse range of anatomists.
Public Engagement in Anatomy - Professor Paul M. Rea
6th July 2021, 09:00 - 11:00 BST
This pre-conference workshop will be split into 2 parts. The first part will be a live talk and Q&A which will examine all the events run by the Anatomy Facility at the University of Glasgow. It will highlight the key element of developing partnerships and collegiality with different organisations like the NHS, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, School of Simulation and Visualisation, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Science Centre, Hunterian Museum, as well as local schools and other national organisations. It will showcase the different elements that can be considered when undertaking large scale public engagement events in anatomy. It will also highlight key points of anatomical legislation to consider when running these types of events.
The second part will involve Zoom breakout rooms to help you plan and organise public engagement events, and what you might need to consider in making this happen for your local teams.
This will be lead by Professor Paul M. Rea who is the lead for Public Engagement in the Anatomy Facility at the University of Glasgow.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Exploring the representation of the female body in rare anatomy books - Dr Ourania Varsou and Mr Robert MacLean
6th July 2021, 12:00 - 13:00 BST
Join this pre-conference virtual workshop to interactively explore the representation of the female body as depicted in anatomical illustrations of rare books. After a short introduction to the topic by Dr Varsou and a brief overview of the University of Glasgow's Archives and Special Collections by Mr MacLean, we will discuss a set of rare anatomy books with a focus on the portrayal of the female body. For this part of the workshop, Dr Varsou and Mr MacLean will handle and explore a set of hand-picked rare books, including zooming into key parts of the anatomical illustrations to unravel hidden themes on equality and diversity, with this being live streamed to the audience. This will be followed by an interactive discussion, in Zoom break-out rooms, of the most pertinent topics raised. We look forward to seeing you there!
Content Warning: Please note that this talk will contain anatomical/medical depictions of the naked female form and anatomical dissections, including those of the pregnant abdomen/pelvis.
Led by Dr Ourania Varsou (Lecturer in Anatomy, University of Glasgow) in collaboration with Mr Robert MacLean (Archives & Special Collections Assisstant Librarian, University of Glasgow).
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Registration for pre-conference workshops will open on Monday 14th June at 9am BST. To register, please email the contact for the workshop you would like to attend, once registration opens. Places on workshops are limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the workshops are only available to delegates who have registered for the main conference.
SESSION 1
CHAIR: Eilidh Ferguson @Ferguson_Eilidh
09:00 – 09:10
Head of College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences
09:10 – 09:20
@FabQu_
Former Chair in Anatomy Glasgow
09:20 – 09:30
Head of School of Life Sciences
09:30 – 10:00
@GillingwaterLab
Anatomy of a human synapse
10:00 – 10:30
Ultrastructural synaptic plasticity changes in Parkinson´s disease and dyskinesia
10:30 – 10:40
A brief overview of the Wolters Kluwer digital and print resources to support instructors and students
10:40 – 10:50
10:50 –11:15
SESSION 2
CHAIR: Anthony Payne
11:15 – 11:30
@AndreaDomRivera
Decline of oligodendrogenesis and myelination in the ageing brain
11:30 – 11:45
@Livdavis117 @DaveHughes_Gla @spinalcordgroup
Identification of a source of presynaptic inhibition to non-peptidergic C-fibres in the mouse spinal dorsal horn
11:45 – 12:00
3D-imaging reveals novel organisational insights into the mouse outer retina.
12:00 – 12:15
COVID-19 Neuropathology: evidence for SARS-CoV-2 invasion of anatomically defined regions in the human CNS
12:15 – 12:25
Complete Anatomy: 2021 and hybrid learning tools
12:25 – 12:50
12:50 –13:30
SESSION 3
CHAIR: D. Ceri Davies
13:30 – 13:35
@mwelshUoG @OuraniaVarsou
Assessing human anatomy students’ perceptions of the interim online teaching and assessment measures, during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the University of Glasgow
13:35 – 13:40
A novel three-dimensional papercraft modelling activity for hands-on remote learning of reproductive anatomy during coronavirus restrictions
13:40 – 13:45
Anatomy teaching in the times of COVID: do students perceive online teaching as experiential learning?
13:45 – 13:50
Evaluating student perceptions of anatomy teaching methods before and during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve the direction of anatomy teaching at the University of Manchester
13:50 – 13:55
@mutahira_lone @AndreToulouse01 @MawaddaAmohamed
Can UDL principles be successfully employed for an online tooth morphology module during the COVID-19 pandemic?
13:55 - 14:00
@AnatOmg @DanyaStone @AnnaliseAnatomy @ScottBorder1 @Domathyobrien
Pandemic Anatomy Education: The changing study habits of students Learning Anatomy in The United Kingdom and Ireland
14:00 – 14:05
@dr_keenan @kscotcher
Student and educator perceptions of remote anatomy learning
14:05 – 14:10
Assessing student opinion of online, case-based gross anatomy learning for abdominal cavity utilizing MRI and XR technology
14:10 – 14:15
Evaluating whether medical student knowledge of clinical ear anatomy meets learning objectives, and whether it can be improved using dissected specimens during the COVID-19 pandemic.
14:15 – 14:20
@dr_keenan @emilyanatomy @kscotcher
Rapid and medium-term adaptations to COVID-19: Insights from an undergraduate medical programme.
14:20 – 14:25
@AnatomyCraig @LucyHyde87 @Sxpat
Collaborative, two-directional live streaming to deliver hands-on human and canine cadaveric dissection experience during the COVID-19 lockdown
14:25 – 14:30
@ScottBorder1 @Wijeyendram
Building a Community of Practice during pandemic anatomy teaching: Combining a face to face and remote Near-Peer Teaching program to support clinical neuroanatomy education in Medicine
14:30 – 14:45
14:45–15:15
SESSION 4
CHAIR: Claire Tierney @ClaireTierney13
15:15 – 15:30
Identifying novel molecular mechanisms underlying electrosensory vs. mechanosensory lateral line organ development in a sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus
15:30 – 15:45
Understanding the Role of Wnts During the Regeneration of the Murine Tympanic Membrane
15:45 – 16:00
Do age-related differences in healthy and osteoarthritic mouse tibias show future imaging biomarkers?
16:00 – 16:15
Morphological investigation of endothelial and sub-endothelial alterations associated with sickle cell trait in a mouse model
16:15 – 16:30
@drdjagadeesh
Neuroanatomical evaluation of the therapeutic potential of rutin and gefitinib in βamyloid oligomer induced Alzheimer disease in Swiss albino mice and to probe the neuroanatomical parallels between lissencephalic Alzheimer mice brain with gyrencephalic human brains
16:30 – 17:00
SESSION 5
CHAIR: Paul Rea @medicalvis
17:00 - 17:30
@CLoukopoulou
Amalgamating anatomy with tissue engineering to produce an anatomically and clinically relevant in vitro bone-tendon construct for flexor tendon repair
17:30 – 18:30
William Hunter and his Anatomical and Pathological Collections
SESSION 1
CHAIR: Eilidh Ferguson @Ferguson_Eilidh
09:00 – 09:30
@hunteriandir
Repatriation of non-Western skulls from museum collections – dilemma’s and challenge
09:30 – 10:00
The Anatomy of the heart through the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci
10:00 – 10:15
@VeronicaPapa6
Preliminary notes on a human eared skull
10:15 – 10:25
Is your institution already using cutting-edge technology to boost learning?
10:25 – 10:35
10:35–11:00
SESSION 2
CHAIR: Ourania Varsou @OuraniaVarsou
11:00 – 11:30
Genetics of congenital heart defects
11:30 – 11:45
@AmyManson13
Neuronal wiring length and brain shape in Homo sapiens and Macaca mulatta during postnatal development
11:45 – 12:00
@vensuya_bisetty
Tessier Clefts – Numbers 3 and 4: Presentation of soft tissue and bony deformities in a South African population
12:00 – 12:15
@J_SanchezPosada @noelresearchlab
morphoHeart: a novel tool to capture, quantify and link 3D asymmetric heart morphogenesis with spatiotemporal extracellular matrix dynamics in zebrafish cardiac development
12:15 – 12:25
12:25 – 13:00
13:00 –13:30
SESSION 3
CHAIR: Abigail Tucker
13:30 – 14:00
Mechanical forces are necessary for normal composition & structure of collagens during prenatal skeletogenesis
14:00 – 14:15
Anthropometric orbital measurements in a paediatric population
14:15 – 14:30
Identification of Age: A Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric and Conventional Analysis of Human Fourth Cervical Vertebrae in Adult Malaysian Population
14:30 – 14:45
A Mesozoic "woodpecker"? Functional morphology of the neck in Zalambdalestes lechei (Mammalia: Eutheria) informed by micro-CT study
14:45 – 15:00
@DrManishaChaud5
A study on the morphological variations of the liver and it’s clinical implications in Gujarat region
15:00 – 15:15
Relationship between buccal branches of the facial nerve, parotid duct, buccal fat pad and Zuker’s point
15:15 – 15:25
@PrimalPictures
Primal Pictures' 30th Birthday Celebration
15:25 – 15:40
15:40 –16:00
SESSION 4
CHAIR: Joanna Matthan @DocMatthan
16:00 – 16:15
@ swords_chloe
Creation of patient-specific 3D-printed model of the human cochlea to evaluate the electrical characteristics of cochlear implants: validation study of normal and inner ear malformations
16:15 – 16:30
Human Cadaver-specific 3D printing of abdominal anatomy
16:30 – 16:45
@SaraBandiera2
Characterization of the earliest thalamocortical interactions in the human fetal brain
16:45 – 17:00
@AndrewLunn16 @TheASHEProject
The vertebral artery blood supply to the brain and its relationship with cognition across the taxonomic classes: Mammalia and Aves
17:00 – 17:15
Successful prediction of zebrafish jaw joint morphogenesis using a biologically informed finite element simulation
SESSION 5
19:30 – 21:00
HOST: Jeremy Mortimer @j_w_mortimer
SESSION 1
CHAIR: Fabio Quondamatteo @FabQu_
09:00 – 09:30
@tomvanagtmael
Collagen IV in the heart: an underappreciated matrix component?
09:30 – 10:00
From intact skin to normal heart beat- it‘s all about cell adhesion!
10:00 – 10:15
@AlannahMole @MurrayLabEd
Investigating factors that can influence the rate of neuromuscular junction degeneration in injury using murine models
10:15 – 10:30
@ElizabethSains1 @fjobrien @CarolineCurtin8
Collagen-based scaffolds as 3D breast cancer models for investigation of epithelial-tomesenchymal transition progression
10:30 – 10:45
@JamesWhiteAnat
Changes in the Visceral Adipose Tissue Proteome in Experimental Type 2 Diabetes and the Impact of Roux-en-Y-Gastric Bypass Surgery
10:45 – 11:00
@isabelanatomy @orankennedy
A novel rat osteochondral explant model to study chemical and mechanical damage in PTOA
11:00 – 11:15
11:15–11:30
SESSION 2
CHAIR: Eilidh Ferguson @Ferguson_Eilidh
11:30 – 12:00
@FaceLabLJMU
Presenting Faces of the Dead in Museum Collections
12:00 – 12:30
The Medical Museum - Blending the best of the Past and Present to build the Future
12:30 – 12:40
@GiotaKordali
Digital anatomy with 3D Organon in the post-pandemic era.
12:40 – 13:10
13:10 –14:00
SESSION 3
CHAIR: Ourania Varsou @OuraniaVarsou
14:00 – 14:30
@AccessAnatomy
Designing Anatomy Curricula for the Future
14:30 – 14:45
Does teaching with digital 3D models enhance student’s anatomical understanding compared to 2D images?
14:45 – 15:00
Impact of digital dissection tools on learner gain of lumbosacral and brachial nerve plexuses
15:00 – 15:10
Interactive A&P learning through virtual dissection
15:10 – 15:25
15:25–15:30
SESSION 4
CHAIR: Paul Rea @medicalvis
15:30 – 15:45
The Canine Abdomen Wiki Dissection as a novel group activity for learning veterinary anatomy
15:45 – 16:00
Ethnic Representation Amongst Anatomical Teaching Resources: Students' Perceptions of Inclusivity
16:00 – 16:15
@dr_keenan @kscotcher @emilyanatomy
A novel cadaveric embalming technique for enhancing visualisation of human anatomy
16:15 – 16:45
Creating technology for anatomy education: making it better, not just different.
16:45 – 17:00
16:45 – 16: 55
@DocMatthan
16:55 – 17:00
@ferguson_eilidh
@NEAnatomist
We are aiming to provide several opportunities for networking during the virtual summer meeting, including evening social events and an online virtual conference café.
Student/Early Career Social Event: Wednesday 7th July 2021, 7.30-9:00pm
Details: A fun virtual social event open to all students and early career members, where you'll be able to meet like-minded people and network with others in the anatomy community. The event will be interactive and involve ice-breakers and party games in small teams!
To register for the event, use the link below and you'll be sent joining information via email: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvfu6gpj4iEtf_6i9vqawzCEv72NdH0NoJ
If you would like more information, please email j.w.mortimer@sms.ed.ac.uk
Open Social Event: Thursday 8th July, 7.30-9.00pm
Details: Presented by University of Glasgow students in the theme of Richard Osman's 'House of Games', this is an informal virtual social event for all the family where you can socialise with other conference attendees whilst challenging your quiz brain.
Join this event through the conference auditorium.
Visit our virtual Conference Café to network and meet other conference delegates. Walk around the virtual space and speak to people you encounter. You can access the café through the conference lobby.
Please note the Conference Café is hosted on an external site and only works with Chrome web browser. You do not need to create an account to access the site, just type in your name and select "enter".
You can also chat and video call with colleagues using the networking tab on the conference platform.